Erik, thanks so much, I wondered why Treeviews was grinding to such a hault :)
Looking at the category trees do you think there is a reasonable subcategory depth I could go to to get a fairly complete overview without you having to prune? If not then yes please if you could prune that would be great :) Thanks again John On 21 April 2016 at 23:34, Erik Zachte <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are all 96610 subcategories of Education, with 2.6 million articles. > > The problem is sometimes one unexpected subcategory can draw in lots of > unexpected content, and the most viewed article can thus be totally > off-topic. > > I could do some iterations and prune the tree into something more > manageable, by blacklisting weird subbranches. > > > > > https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pageviews/categorized/wp-en/2016-02/categories_wp-en_cat_Education_2016-02.html > > > > Erik Zachte > > > > > > *From:* Wiki-research-l [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Leila Zia > *Sent:* Thursday, April 21, 2016 23:13 > *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communities > *Subject:* Re: [Wiki-research-l] Finding the most viewed Wikipedia > articles on education > > > > John, I played with Wikipedia Tools for Google and I'm sure it will do > what you're looking for. Check out this > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HeFluqXXcSXw14pk_hceKbuxykNaTjOJMLrNxs81Ifk/edit#gid=0> > Google spreadsheet. You just have to repeat a slightly modified formula in > columns B and C to get what you have in column D for all subcategories of > Education listed in A. You can automate that part, too. > > > > L > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 12:39 PM, john cummings <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Leila > > > > Thanks very much, what I need to be able to do is get all the articles > within the category and subcategories of Category:Education and then get > page views for all of them, its a lot of pages...... My friend Ed Saperia > created a spreadsheet to do this but unfortunately the query API limits to > a few 100 articles so its not possible to run the query through that. > > > > Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated. > > > > Thanks > > > > John > > > > On 21 April 2016 at 18:54, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi John, > > > > Two comments: > > * Have you tried Wikipedia Tools for Google > <https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikipedia-tools/aiilcelhmpllcgkhhpifagfehbddkdfp?hl=en>? > It's a very neat add-on for Chrome, and in your case, the two functions > WIKICATEGORYMEMBERS and WIKIPAGEVIEWS may help you get what you want. > > > > * If you are looking for having a list of articles related to Education > that are available in English and are missing in another language, you can > use the article recommendation API. For example: > http://recommend.wmflabs.org/api?s=en&t=fr&n=10&article=Education gives > you the top 10 recommendations for articles related to Education that are > available in English but missing in French. Note that "related" is not the > same as articles that are in category "Education" though I hope we can > accommodate categories in the future. The documentation for the API is in > here <https://github.com/ewulczyn/translation-recs-app/tree/master/api>. > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Best, > > Leila > > > Leila Zia > > Research Scientist > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:04 AM, john cummings <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I'm doing some work with colleagues from the education sector at UNESCO to > look at improving some of the most viewed education articles on English > language Wikipedia. > > > > I'm trying to use TreeViews to get information on what are the most viewed > articles in Category:Education, unfortunately such large categories just > crash my browser, it means I will have to split the query up into at least > 50-100 smaller queries. > > > > Does anyone know of a less manual way around this? Ideally the output > would be spreadsheet of the article title and the number of page views of > the article for a 30, 60 or 90 period in the recent past. I will use > Treeviews if it is the only way but I'd really love to save myself from > half a day of data entry. I imagine this would also be useful for people > working with other organisations for other subjects. > > > > Thanks > > > > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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